Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year

Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by oh_sigh on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:00PM (#25434396)

Gawker was bankrupted because they really wanted to display Hulk Hogan's penis, filmed on a hidden camera in a private room, on their website.

edit: removed reference to violating a court order, even though they did before having it overturned.

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Re:Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S... by ceejayoz on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:30PM (#25434834)

That's entirely incorrect.

Gawker objected to that court order, and won (https://www.leagle.com/decision/inflco20140117151).

> The circuit court's order granting Mr. Bollea's motion for temporary injunction is reversed because it acts as an unconstitutional prior restraint under the First Amendment.

There's clear Supreme Court precedent from cases like New York Times Co. v. United States (the Pentagon Papers case) that prior restraint is unconstitutional.

They lost the overall case on other grounds.

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